We are as clever with our machines and technologies as we are simple-minded in the management of our emotions. We are, in terms of wisdom, little more advanced than the ancient Sumerians or the Picts. We have the technology of an advanced civilization balancing precariously on an emotional base that has not developed much since we dwelt in caves. We have the appetites and destructive furies of primitive primates who have come into possession of thermonuclear warheads.
Author: Alain de Botton
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society, Wisdom
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society, Wisdom
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